Halo: Reach Walkthrough & Strategy Guide

We've refined the IGN_Strategize technique a bit and figured out how to rack up higher scores, faster. Check out the Heat in the Pipe, Lucky You, Firestarter, Crowd Control or Blaze of Glory Achievement tips below to see a full description of the custom firefight match we set up.

IGN_Strategize: Halo: Reach Achievement Farming

There are 49 achievements worth a total of 1000 Achievement points in Halow: Reach. Click on an Achievement below to view a tip for that Achievement or submit one and we'll credit you! Note: You can only get Campaign-related Achievements on Normal or Higher difficulty.

Here is some (very) general advice: In order to get this Achievement, try putting them in order from Hardest to easiest. Most daily challenges involve getting a certain number of kills in multiplayer or Firefight. The others will most likely involve playing multiplayer as well. So, to start out, play multiplayer or Firefight till you have reached those certain amount of kills. By the time you finish one challenge, you will have already completed some of the other challenges that require playing multiplayer. The key is to start with the challenges that take the longest, because most likely you will finish other challenges while playing.

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A Spoonful of Blamite

Kill 10 enemies in Firefight or Campaign with a supercombine explosion.

SuperDave513 says...

For the Spoonful of Blamite achievement, make a Firefight gametype with a custom skull whose properties give you invincibility, bottomless clip, and that you do 75% damage (I'll explain). Make every wave a Brute wave they're bigger and don't always have shields. Now go into Firefight and grab a Needler or Needle Rifle. Since you only do 75% damage you don't have to worry about killing enemies without getting a supercombine (an explosion caused by needles -- it takes three needles to supercombine and detonate with the Needle Rifle). Now just shoot enemies until you get the Achievement.

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A Storage Solution

Using the File Browser upload a file to your File Share.

IGN Guides says...

After playing for a bit, enter the Theater option in the Main Menu. Browse your latest movies and save one of them to your hard disk by highlighting it and pressing X for options. You can now upload this video to your File Share using the menu options provided.

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An Elegant Weapon...

Kill 10 enemies in a Firefight or Campaign session with the DMR.

IGN Guides says...

The DMR is the scoped Designated Marksman Rifle that's common in the Campaign. Of course, you can always just pick one up in firefight or adjust the settings to let you spawn with it in your loadout.

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An Honor Serving

Reach the rank of Captain in the UNSC.

tfghost92 says...

Play Team Slayer playlist alot. Try to bulk yourself up on SWAT and try to play as many SWAT games in Team Slayer as possible. For every headshot you get, you gain bonus credits (around 14cR each).

If you get the most kills/headshots in the game and win each SWAT game, you can average around 1,500 cR per SWAT game. This doesn't include any possible challenges you may complete during the game.

Another alternative is to play alot of Invasion. Good luck, Spartan, you will need it!

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Banshees, Fast And Low

Hijack a Banshee during the Reach Campaign.

Arthur Gies says...

You need the Jetpack Armor Upgrade for this one. In the level On the Tip of the Spear, once you crash inside the semispherical shield of the final tower, work your way towards it. When you're given the go-ahead to infiltrate the tower and get to the top, look along the tall cliff face. Several platforms made out of what appear to be pipes can be found here. Jetpack up to these and wait for a Bansee to come for you. When the Banshee turns around, it moves especially slow. Jetpack towards the Banshee and hit the prompt to jack it.

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Be My Wingman Anytime

Let a teammate spawn on you 5 times in an Invasion Matchmaking game.

Jake Mahr says...

If you want to get this Achievement, begin a game of Invasion while in the same party as your friend. Then, have your friend go to a secluded area in the map and you go out and just die five times and the game will automatically spawn you on your friend. After you spawn on them five times they will get the Achievement and then your friend can return the favor.

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Blaze Of Glory

Score 200,000 points in Firefight on any map.

IGN Guides says...

To make this Achievement very, very easy, set up a Firefight match with the exact settings below.

Set your Mission (Map) to Beachhead (you can do this anywhere but we found Beachhead to be the easiest to hit large packs of enemies)

Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)

Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.

Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.

Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:

Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)

Squad Selection Order: Ordered

All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)

After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.

Back out to the Spartan Settings Menu and choose Loadouts and make the following changes:

For Loadouts 1-6, change Hide Loadout to Hidden (this will ensure that you have the Rocket Launcher you set for your primary weapon above for the entire match)

Back out to the Firefight Menu -- you can ignore the Elite Settings and General Settings menus.

Now, begin your game.

Since you are invulnerable and your rocket launcher will take out Elites in one hit, this just takes time. Your ultimate goal is to just hit clumps of Elites for high scores. After playing for a bit you'll learn the locations of Elite drops. Watch for the drop near the center of the map on the cement platform -- 8 Elites drop here at once! It took about 10 minutes for us to get 200,000 points.

To make this Achievement very, very easy, set up a Firefight match with the exact settings below.

Set your Mission (Map) to Beachhead (you can do this anywhere but we found Beachhead to be the easiest to hit large packs of enemies)

Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)

Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.

Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.

Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:

Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)

Squad Selection Order: Ordered

All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)

After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.

Back out to the Spartan Settings Menu and choose Loadouts and make the following changes:

For Loadouts 1-6, change Hide Loadout to Hidden (this will ensure that you have the Rocket Launcher you set for your primary weapon above for the entire match)

Back out to the Firefight Menu -- you can ignore the Elite Settings and General Settings menus.

Now, begin your game.

The Killionaire medal can be won be killing 10 enemies within 4 seconds of each other. The easiest time to get this is during the Bonus round, where dozens of Elites will swarm around you. Just aim for the Elites -- or your feet -- and send rocket after rocket at them. Kill ten quickly and you'll get the Achievement.

To make this Achievement very, very easy, set up a Firefight match with the exact settings below.

Set your Mission (Map) to Beachhead (you can do this anywhere but we found Beachhead to be the easiest to hit large packs of enemies)

Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)

Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.

Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.

Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:

Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)

Squad Selection Order: Ordered

All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)

After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.

Back out to the Spartan Settings Menu and choose Loadouts and make the following changes:

For Loadouts 1-6, change Hide Loadout to Hidden (this will ensure that you have the Rocket Launcher you set for your primary weapon above for the entire match)

Back out to the Firefight Menu -- you can ignore the Elite Settings and General Settings menus.

Now, begin your game.

Since you are invulnerable and your rocket launcher will take out Elites in one hit, this just takes time. Your ultimate goal is to just hit clumps of Elites for high scores. After playing for a bit you'll learn the locations of Elite drops. Watch for the drop near the center of the map on the cement platform -- 8 Elites drop here at once! It took about 3 minutes for us to get 50,000 points.

To make this Achievement very, very easy, set up a Firefight match with the exact settings below.

Set your Mission (Map) to Beachhead (you can do this anywhere but we found Beachhead to be the easiest to hit large packs of enemies)

Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)

Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.

Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.

Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:

Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)

Squad Selection Order: Ordered

All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)

After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.

Back out to the Spartan Settings Menu and choose Loadouts and make the following changes:

For Loadouts 1-6, change Hide Loadout to Hidden (this will ensure that you have the Rocket Launcher you set for your primary weapon above for the entire match)

Back out to the Firefight Menu -- you can ignore the Elite Settings and General Settings menus.

Now, begin your game.

Invulnerability helps with this a bit! Basically, kill every enemy in every round and wave until the rounds start over. This takes about 30 minutes. With the ultimate settings outlined above, you won't have any trouble with this -- but you'll have to have some patience!

To make this Achievement very, very easy, set up a Firefight match with the exact settings below.

Set your Mission (Map) to Beachhead (you can do this anywhere but we found Beachhead to be the easiest to hit large packs of enemies)

Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)

Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.

Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.

Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:

Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)

Squad Selection Order: Ordered

All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)

After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.

Back out to the Spartan Settings Menu and choose Loadouts and make the following changes:

For Loadouts 1-6, change Hide Loadout to Hidden (this will ensure that you have the Rocket Launcher you set for your primary weapon above for the entire match)

Back out to the Firefight Menu -- you can ignore the Elite Settings and General Settings menus.

Now, begin your game.

Since you are invulnerable and your rocket launcher will take out Elites in one hit, this just takes time. Your ultimate goal is to just hit clumps of Elites for high scores. After playing for a bit you'll learn the locations of Elite drops. Watch for the drop near the center of the map on the cement platform -- 8 Elites drop here at once! It took about 30 minutes and 750 kills for us to get 1,000,000 points.

Kill 10 Enemies in a Firefight or Campaign session with the M6G pistol.

IGN Guides says...

You can get this in the first Mission where you start with the M6G Pistol. Aim for the head!

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If They Came To Hear Me Beg

Perform an Assassination against an Elite to survive a fall that would've been fatal.

IGN Guides says...

You can get this Achievement at the very start of The Pillar of Autumn. You begin this mission at the edge of a cliff. Below you is an Elite and a pack of Grunts. The Elite will move around the area, but he'll be in the right position occasionally, a bit closer and with his back towards the cliff. Your goal is to activate Sprint and jump off the cliff towards the Elite, control your fall carefully, cancel your Sprint (press DOWN on the Analog Stick) and perform an Assassination on the Elite in the millisecond before you hit the ground. Sounds easy, right? It ain't!

To make things easier, try to time your jump -- with a running start -- to be right between the lines of dialog "There's our destination Six, Pillar of Autumn" and "...Race you to her." You can also use the visual cue of the message" Current Objective: Deliver Package to Pillar of Autumn." Begin your run right before this message disappears.

You must aim for directly behind the Elite below and you must hold LB to perform the Assassination just before you land. You may be shocked to survive after a well executed Assassination with no Achievement rewarded. This is because you touched the Elite before you performed the Assassination. If you touch the Elite you will stop your fall, so the Assassination isn't really what stopped you. Make sure you fall BEHIND the Elite, not ON it. Also, if Sprint is still activated you'll swing your weapon for a melee instead of an Assassination, so be sure to pull back before hitting the ground to cancel Sprint. Check out the video on the bottom of the page for a multi-angled shot of the Achievement.

Earn a Triple Kill while Jetpacking in Campaign, Firefight or Matchmaking.

IGN Guides says...

To make this Achievement very, very easy, set up a Firefight match with the exact settings below.

Set your Mission (Map) to Beachhead (you can do this anywhere but we found Beachhead to be the easiest to hit large packs of enemies)

Set your Difficulty to Legendary (for a score multiplier)

Under Game Options, choose Firefight Settings and Wave Properties and change these settings for Round 1, 2 AND 3 Round Properties. You have to change the settings for EACH ROUND.

Turn on these skulls: Mythic, Catch, Tough Luck, Famine, Tilt, Black Eye, Grunt Birthday, Cowbell, IWHBYD. These skulls will increase your multiplier. Note: You can turn on Cloud if you want, but having radar helps you anticipate enemy drops and score more points.

Now, for each Wave, Initial, Main and Boss, change these settings:

Uses Dropship: Enabled (You will be able to hit clumps of enemies dropping from Phantoms for high scores)

Squad Selection Order: Ordered

All Squads 1-5: Elites (Elites are worth more points than Grunts and you can kill them in one missile hit, unlike Brutes)

After adjusting the settings and Skulls for ALL 3 ROUNDS, enter the Bonus Wave settings and make these changes.

Approach a soldier (not a Spartan) in the Campaign and hand him or her your weapon by holding X.

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Tank Beats Everything

Finish the 9th mission on Legendary with the Scorpion intact.

Kevin Dimasuay says...

It's best to do this mission with 3 or 4 players. Once you have your party set up, advance through the level until you reach the tank. Have only one person drive the tank while the rest recon the rest of the level and take out any enemy opposition. The tank driver will act as the respawn point since it is out of danger. Be careful not to go too far as the tank driver will teleport to your position.

Once the recon team clears the area of enemies, have the tank driver drive up to that area and stay there and repeat the process. If your find yourself low on health or ammo and are unable to find any after clearing out the area, have a teammate kill you so you can respawn with an Assault Rifle and DMR. If possible, try to hijack enemy Ghosts or Revenants as they can help greatly when used. Also pay attention for any Fuel Rod Cannons the enemies drop, as that weapon can help take out groups of enemies or vehicles. Be also aware of the Banshees in the level. Pick up a Plasma Pistol and disable it if you can so the tank can destroy it since you are unable to hijack it. Once you reach the part where there are Shade Turrets (especially the one that shoots Fuel Rods), camp around the top of the hill and constantly shoot the Shade Turrets with your DMR, since enough damage will destroy it.

The Target Locater is the hand held device you can pick up in the Oni Sword Base mission right after fighting through the base. The Target Locater is marked as "Ordinance" in a row of weapon cases in a building just before you come upon the two Wraith tanks. Oh, and those two Wraith tanks we just mentioned? Those will be your 2 dead vehicles. As you pass out into the open, look for the two tanks to appear in front of you and destroy a Warthog. Begin charging the Target Locater as soon as the Warthog detonates and aim for a spot on the ground between the two Wraiths. If the air strike misses the Wraiths, just revert to your last save and try again.

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Wake Up Buttercup

Destroy the Corvette's engines & escort in under 3 minutes in the 6th mission on Heroic or harder.

IGN Guides says...

It may seem like a crunch, but 3 minutes actually is plenty of time to destroy the four Corvette engines and the accompanying Banshees and Seraphs. You'll get a Checkpoint and an audio clip saying "Frigate Savannah in position, Saber Team sound off" which is your cue that the 3 minute countdown has begun. First, thrust far off the stern (the rear, engine side) of the Corvette and turn around. With plenty of distance between you and it, fire volley after volley of Missiles. You can lock on to all four engines and a single batch of missiles should destroy each one. After they are all destroyed, immediately look for a Seraph or Banshee to target. Use your cannons exclusively on Banshees and on the shields of the Seraphs. Lock on to Seraphs without shields and fire your missiles (Note: Press Y to switch between cannons and missiles) to finish them off -- don't wait to see them explode. You'll know you are almost finished when you see the remaining ships marked on your screen. Finish them off for the Achievement.

The Elite Zealot is a purple, armored Elite that is running around on the upper level of the refinery area at Rally Point Alpha in "On the Tip of the Spear." Clear out the entire area before trying to take him on. His Concussion Rifle is tough to avoid, but you can take shots at him before dropping down into the lower area. With the help of a well-placed Plasma Pistol and some DMR shots you may be able to take him out. Since he won't run away immediately, however, it's easier to cross the area and use the stairs to get closer to the Zealot. Use an overcharged Plasma Pistol to drop his shields and then fill him with bullets to take him out.